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SOTA- Brown Clee Hill (G/WB-002) 15th February 2013

Encouraged by the Trans Atlantic QSOs the previous day on Callow Hill, I set out to activate Brown Clee Hill again, one of the 2 SOTA Summits I can see from my house 🙂

After parking next to the phone box / library as normal, I kitted up and walked up the bridleway, being somewhat surprised to find 2-3 foot snowdrifts at the top!

Successfully circumventing these, and finding the bog at the top pleasantly frozen over 🙂 I eventually made it to the top.

View from the activation point towards Titterstone Clee Hill

I quickly setup the 44′ Norcal Doublet on the fishing pole and plugged it into the 817ND. Then… I couldn’t find the cable to connect the rig to the 7AH SLAB.. Quickly remembering it was still lying on the hall floor back at home 🙁 GAH!!

It seemed that the internal batteries were fully charged in the rig, so I thought I’d give it a go, at 2.5W SSB, HF only, not wishing to take it all apart again, go home, return, and repeat the procedure!

I struggled to add a spot to sotawatch, adding ‘quick activation only 2.5W’ to it!

The rig managed to last an hour and a quarter (probably longer, but 2.5W wasn’t getting heard to most places) and 21 QSOs, including 2 Trans Atlantic ones again 🙂 One of whom called later, wanting to confirm that I was, in fact, running 2.5W!

Many thanks to all the chasers:

12:39z

EA1LQ

14MHz

SSB

Ernesto Spain

12:39z

N4EX

14MHz

SSB

Richard NC USA

12:40z

OK2BUT

14MHz

SSB

Jan Czech Republic

12:41z

OM1AX

14MHz

SSB

Vlado Bratislava

12:42z

G6WRW

14MHz

SSB

Carolyn Kidderminster

12:43z

OE7PHI

14MHz

SSB

Holger Austria

12:44z

W4ZV

14MHz

SSB

Bill NC USA

12:59z

G6WRW

7MHz

SSB

Carolyn Kidderminster

13:00z

G4AFI

7MHz

SSB

Andrew Hants

13:00z

G4ZRP

7MHz

SSB

Brian NW England

13:01z

G4WSB

7MHz

SSB

Bill Swindon

13:01z

G4UXH

7MHz

SSB

Colin Cumbria

13:03z

M0MDA

7MHz

SSB

Mick Leeds

13:04z

F5UBH

7MHz

SSB

Christophe France

13:05z

PA0B

7MHz

SSB

Rob Netherlands

13:07z

MW0IML

7MHz

SSB

Barry Wales

13:08z

G0RQL

7MHz

SSB

Don Devon

13:11z

ON4KCY

7MHz

SSB

Yves belgium

13:22z

G1PIE

7MHz

SSB

Mark Preston

13:50z

G0TRB

7MHz

SSB

Roger Staffordshire

13:55z

MM0GPL

7MHz

SSB

Chris Scotland

Struggling to get any more contacts, it was time to pack it all away, and negotiate the snow drifts back down to the comfort of the car!